Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — Sour Milk by Violet Rays. [ARTICLE]

Sour Milk by Violet Rays.

It has always been commonly believed that milk curdles owing to the change of temperature and that by using ice this difficulty would be overcome, according to Dr. Humbert BuzKonl in the Electrical Experimenter, but this precaution does not take away the primal cause. While germs in milk remain latent under the unfavorable environment of pefhaps zero degree, they develop Immediately upon being brought in contact with light and a more productive environment.' The moment ultra violet rays come, In contact with the infinitesimal life development begins, and while it is true that some microbes are destroyed by the utra violet rays, it has been found that the Inferior organisms generally develop more rapidly under the Influence of these rays.